Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyglass Middle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Middle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernaslauntia (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.67941, -8.51111
- SMR number
- GA007-020----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland, c. 150m W of Ballyglass Castle (GA007-019----). The very poorly preserved remains of dried-up holy well indicated by an oval-shaped stone-lined hollow (L 2.8m, Wth 1.8m) opening out to W. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 70), while it was not blessed by a saint, it was resorted to as a cure for disease.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.